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Period: 1500 to
Scientific Revolution
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1543
Copernicus
Discovered the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe and the Sun was the centre of the solar system -
1543
Vesalius
Vesalius, a professor at the University of Padua, dissected bodies and asked an artist to draw accurately what he found. He published a book on anatomy in this year and is known as one of the most important medical books ever written.